• Record Label: Def Jam
  • Release Date: Aug 12, 2011
User Score
7.5

Generally favorable reviews- based on 766 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Negative: 70 out of 766
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  1. Nov 19, 2020
    1
    Generic music, nothing special, typical Kanye egomania top to bottom, not worth the time.
  2. Dec 25, 2020
    7
    Very good album. Some tracks are better than others. Favourite track is “n****s in Paris”.
  3. Mar 29, 2021
    7
    this album is a 7 this album is a 7 this album is a 7 this album is a 7 this album is a 7
  4. Sep 22, 2021
    9
    This is just too much fun to listen to. No skips but Lift Off and Gotta Have It are a little repetitive. Still good tracks they just don't hold up to Murder To Excellence and New Day, they best emotionally charged tracks. And this album is full of bangers that are great to bump in the whip. This albums makes me fell like a braggadocios rich man.

    9/10
  5. Oct 2, 2022
    7
    this had the potential to be a near-perfect album and even though it is a great album with many great songs like dudes in Paris, Otis, no church in the wild & ham but I feel they didn't use all the power they had between both of them and were kinda sloppy with their work here
  6. Aug 31, 2021
    10
    This album is pure “black excellence, opulence, decadence”. Kanye goes bar for bar with Jay Z and cements his status alongside his contemporary as a hip hop great, not only as a producer but rapper. This album is second only to MBDTF in Kanye’s discography. Brilliant.
  7. Aug 30, 2021
    10
    Criminally underrated score on here. This album is Kanye's 2nd best piece of work after MBDTF. An insanely fun listen.
  8. May 22, 2023
    8
    Crazy good collab album, some misses tho I still love it. Favorite song: New Day
  9. Jan 10, 2022
    6
    Este álbum me parece algo repetitivo y parece que sobran canciones.
    Hay muchas canciones buenas, pero otras malas.
  10. Mar 30, 2022
    8
    goodgoodgoodgoodgoodgoodgoodgoodgoodgoodgoodgoodgoodgoodgoodgoodgoodgoodgood
  11. Mar 4, 2022
    5
    The first half is amazing then after Otis the quality of the songs drop a lot, murder in excellence the only good song of the second half
  12. Mar 25, 2022
    8
    feels like the rap version of fall out boy's american beauty/american psycho: amazing music connected by mediocre filler
  13. May 9, 2022
    8
    Not much to say about it, one of my favorite collaboration albums ever. No church in the wild, Otis, Two dudes in Paris, Murder to Excellence, and gotta have it are all great tracks. Welcome to the jungle is a total miss though just skip that one.
  14. Jan 26, 2023
    8
    这张在关于kanye的讨论中貌似存在感很低,但我觉得这张很优秀。凑字数凑字数凑字数凑字数凑字数凑字数凑字数凑字数凑字数凑字数凑字数凑字数凑字数凑字数凑字数
  15. Jul 18, 2023
    0
    For someone like me who does not really like rap did i think i would like this album absolutely not but it's probably one of my favorite rap albums to be honest favorite track Lift Off
Metascore
76

Generally favorable reviews - based on 42 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 34 out of 42
  2. Negative: 0 out of 42
  1. Magnet
    Nov 11, 2011
    80
    They turn out to be pretty good influences on one another. Jay sounds generally reinvigorated: good-humored, full of nimble, intricate wit and atypically emotionally revealing, and if Kanye's rhymes occasionally remain as clumsy and crass as his personal life choices, he drops far fewer boners than usual. [#81, p. 56]
  2. Q Magazine
    Sep 21, 2011
    80
    Hip hop heavy weights stop squabbling for long enough to justify their star billing. [Oct 2011, p.116]
  3. Sep 12, 2011
    67
    That Jay and 'Ye have the courtesy to stop rapping about their money and start attacking real issues--black-on-black crime in "Murder to Excellence," raising children on "New Day"--is icing on a very expensive cake.